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Topic: I am closer to hell..but that is a good thing (Read 4561 times)

So I finally dropped my car. Thanks to Neuspeed sport springs and Bilstine Sport shocks it is now lower by 2 inches and a WHOLE lot tighter. I was a bit nervous about doing this because I have a driveway issues, however once I discovered that the car does not compress much at all, even under the weight of three men standing in the trunk, I was a little more optimistic.

On the drive home I got a lot of attention. I even could read one passenger lips “What kind of car is that?” I LOVE IT! I have a great Car that inspires confusion in passer-bys.

The final test on the driveway was successfull - but I have to creep in and out at one hell of a crazy angle 8O

Thanks to all the member of RMCB5 for the encouragement and support in my recent post / poll.

I have one shot in my gallary, and I will get a few more later to post.

Thank GOD you finally did it.. Nice set up btw. I have the same setup.. it all came from that one fated evening when you were pushing on my car to see how much body roll it had, didn't it?? j/k I knew you'd do it sooner or later.

Nice Randy, now you need a rear sway bar and you'll really think you have a sports car instead of a family sedan. I like my O-Bar rear sway bar, but the Neuspeed adjustable unit is really a lot better. Also Autotech sells a rear sway bar for our cars. They are mor eexpensive than the O-Bar, but they also easier to install. The O-Bar is a bit of a headache to do. :?

Thanks Chas! I am pretty happy for now, but as I have proven in the past I change my mind all the time. That is the problem when you lack mental stability :?

I think my tires are a bit out of ballance, because I get a bit of a vibration at 60MPH and it does not go away. At fits I thought it was just the bad mountain roads, but I have continued to feel it...

So I went to get my car aligned today and the place said "sure no problem" Yah Right!!!

I go back to get the car and the guy come back and said "we were not able to do the alignment, becasue your car does not fit on the rack." I ask why - "The front end it too wide. We can get in to the rack, but the front spoiler is too big and the sensors do not fit. We need you to bring the car back so we can adjust the rack to make it fit." :mad:

I am completely mystified by this. I know the front of my car is a little - a very little - bit wider that stock, but there are surely other volkswagens and Audi's that are wider that my car (Phaeton, Toureg, A6, A8 )and you can surely align those.

Needless to say I am REALLY upset. So I do not think I will be going back there. I turely feel that becasue it was a Friday afternoon, and the tech did not want to take that time to do the work, I was given a LAME excuse and sent on my way. :evil:

So is there a place in town that will actaully DO the alignment that anyone knows of? I need to have it done, not have time for lame excuses just to have my car returned to me.

Randy, you might check with Chas. He knows of some guy that is on east "HO"fax almost to Aurora. You might try your man ho stuff over there.

Any way the guy supposedly does a nice job and I think uses a Hunter rack. When you do it have them use the 1BE settings. That's the closes setting for a dropped suspension.

I had Firestone do it on my ride last year. They use A hunter rack as well but you tend to find technicians that do not care about your wheels at places like that. I got a few scratches on my Ronal's. You might remind whomever to be carefull with the wheels.

I took the car into another shop today at lunch to see if they could help me out. I explained my previous problem getting the alignment done and the guy - Drew - decided to look at the car and the rack to see if he could do it.

After some measurements and a good look at the rack, we decided to give it a shot and see if I could get the car on the rack. Now having perfected getting in and out of my drive way at and angle, I employed the same technique pulling onto the rack. IT FITS!!! (this makes my suspicion from last Friday seem all the more plausable)

I give him the Bentley Alignment specifications for the 1BE suspension and we discuss the set up and I am on my way. He was surprised that I had the spec’s and wanted to know how I got them.

Drew calls about 90 minutes later and said he got it all done, it was toe-out negative, but now I am all set.

I will get the car after work and give it a good test on the way home. I have my fingers crossed that this is the end of it.